larsmb, 2 months ago

Narrowing it down to Hosting.de, Hetzner, and INWX.de

Thanks all.

Tricky to decide, might as well roll dice I guess :-)

(And yes, I'm one of those people who spend hours in decision paralysis with different boxes of pasta in the store, why do you ask)

bjo, 2 months ago

@larsmb happy hosting.de customer.

larsmb, 2 months ago

@bjo I think my main question that I don't yet quite know the answer to is whether hosting.de supports wildcard records with DynDNS. (The docs don't explicitly cover this case.)

Do you know? I asked their support, but, uh, they're currently on a deserved weekend I hope :)

(That'd be easiest, since I'm already a customer for other services.)

dereulenspiegel, 2 months ago

@larsmb Could using desec be a solution? You would need a suitable Registrar, but desec supports DynDNS afaik (and has a nice API).

larsmb, 2 months ago

@dereulenspiegel desec looks fun, if there was a registrar that supports it :)

dereulenspiegel, 2 months ago

@larsmb Most should support it. Right now I use it with namecheap and do.de and it works fine. Only requirement towards the registrart is, that DNSSEC needs to be supported.

hko, 2 months ago

@larsmb have you considered njal.la?

larsmb, 2 months ago

@hko I hadn't, thanks for the idea.
But they don't support .de and primarily appear to prefer payment in crypto currencies.

hko, 2 months ago

@larsmb ah, i didn't check for .de domains, but can report that i had no issues using EUR

larsmb, 2 months ago

@hko Yeah, but they advertise crypto too prominently and I don't want to support that :)

hko, 2 months ago

@larsmb fair. i don't share that tradeoff, but there are certainly different reasonable tradeoffs to be made.

(fwiw: while i believe we're on the same page that blockchain stuff is a net detriment to the world, i don't consider boycotting anyone who interacts with it a top priority.
there are many vile things in the world, and boycotting blockchain-association is not at the top of my list.
no ethical consumption under capitalism.)

larsmb, 2 months ago

@hko Fair. The no-.de is a bit of a more significant block since I have a couple of those domains. The crypto block is more of a "I'll take whatever criterion to narrow down the choice paralysis" one.

Also, I'm miffed because had I thrown my ethics out the window the last time I considered buying Bitcoin, I could now retire and pontificate about how evil they are. Morals really get in the way of being rich.

hko, 2 months ago

@larsmb hah. i also giggle about the time i decided not to run a CPU-miner, when that was still a thing.

good luck figuring out where you want to get your dns hosting done! :)

larsmb, 2 months ago

@hko It's not as if I don't recognize I'll never save enough money to make up for the time I've spent on the decision 😐

xahteiwi, 2 months ago

@larsmb Easyname (Austria) doesn't fit the bill?

larsmb, 2 months ago

@xahteiwi They seem somewhat expensive and don't seem to support DynDNS. Thanks though!